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Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question and he plumped for the Old.
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It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.
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If I tended toward frivolity as a boy, I am incorrigibly settled in it now.
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Today I live in the gray, muffled, smelless, puffy, tasteless half-world of those who have colds.
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A pig can learn more tricks than a dog, but has too much sense to want to do it.
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If you are an intellectual, your best course is to relax and enjoy it.
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There are, one presumes, tone-deaf readers.
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Bookes give no wisdom where none was before,But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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We all have slumbering realms of sensibility which can be coaxed into wakefulness by books.
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I do not trust any advice which is given in bad prose.
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There is no democracy in the world of intellect, and no democracy of taste.
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Do they show us the future as it matures in the womb of the present?
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We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.
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Thought and reason, unless matched by feelings, are empty, delusive things.
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When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.
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After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.
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People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.
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Now, very few [physicians] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.
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Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.
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Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.
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Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
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A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.
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Try some Symbolic Logic on your little Couch Potato when you go home, and see what happens.
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Love, though sweet, must know its proper stationAnd never seek to rival education.
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